For years, the rallying cry for education parity was on behalf of girls. This culminated in 1992, when the American Association of University Women reported that female students werenâ??t being called in class as often as boys, werenâ??t participating in math and science classes like their male peers, and thus, werenâ??t likely to pursue those fields in college.
Schools caught on, and for the most part, the campaign worked. But a curious thing happened on the way to Jane earning her chemistry degree â?? the boys got left behind. Over the past decades, public high schools report that more girls than boys are taking Advanced Placement courses, including calculus and biology. And your typical college campus is nearly 60 percent female.